Sesame Street and Headspace: Monster Meditations

This video helps kids learn how to use meditation when they get frustrated by playing a version of “I Spy” using the 5 senses. Cookie Monster can’t wait for his cookies to be done baking! His friend, Mr. Andy from Headspace, helps him with a Monster Meditation. The viewer can join Cookie Monster and Mr. Andy in a game of “I-Sense,” and find out how they can make waiting more fun!

You can get ready for bedtime by saying goodnight to the different parts of your body! Elmo can’t fall asleep, and he learns to use monster meditation to help himself calm down to help get ready for bed. He takes soothing belly breaths and plays Goodnight Body (like progressive muscle relaxation) by wiggling each part of his body and relaxing it, to say goodnight to each part of his body.

You can use a focus rhyme to focus on one task at a time, when you have so much to do! You start with belly breaths, and then say a rhyme to help you focus: “When you have so much to do, breathe in, breathe out do a rhyme, count one, two, then you do!

Two-Headed Monster learns that when you’re feeling frustrated, it can help sometimes to take a break and blow out your imaginary candle before trying to do something. When you’re feeling frustrated, take a breath before you try again (like when their block tower fell over), take monster meditation belly breaths, so they can build the tower again.

With a little bit of teamwork, Rosita can get ready for her first day of school! So when you’re feeling nervous, grab a buddy. Rosita doesn’t want to go to school because she is too anxious. She learns how to do belly breathing with her arms up over her head, focusing on her breaths when she’s anxious, with Carmen on her belly.

Play 123 Freeze with Elmo and his friend Mr. Andy from Headspace! When you’re feeling disappointed, this monster meditation can help you, like when things don’t work out the way you planned. You do belly breathing, then do 1-2-3 Freeze (take 3 steps and call out what you see; then repeat).